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A Mothers' Meeting 

An Entertainment in One Scene 

For Female Characters 



V 

ARLO BATES 

yiuthor of <^ A Bunne^r Meeting," "^ GentU 
Jury," ^^Her Deaf Ear," " An In- 
terrupted Proposal," etc. 



BOSTON 

WALTER H. BAKER & CO. 
1909 



A Mothers' Meeting 









DRAMATIS 

Mrs. Gilflora Smithe. 
Mrs. Mercy Browne. 
Mrs. Sampson Hoyt. 
Miss Selina Gray. 
Miss Araminta Sharp. 

Jane, 


PERSONiE ^"f^f 

Mrs. Growler. 
Mrs. Henderson. 
Mrs. Lowell. 
Miss Keene. 
Miss White. 
a 7?iaid. 



All except Mrs. Lowell and Jane are in street costume, biit 
have left their wraps outside. 




Copyright, 1909, by Arlo Bates 



l^'^o. 16719 
8 1909 



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A Mothers' Meeting 



SCENE. — A parlor. Ten chairs are loosely arranged iii a 
sort of semicircle facing the audience. At the back a small 
table stajids against the wall. On another table at 07ie side 
is a work-basket with usual contents y including a long-han- 
dled darning-ball. 

Enter Mrs. Lowell and Mrs. Growler talking. 

Mrs. Lowell. I am so glad you came early, Mrs. Growler. 
You can tell me what we are expected to do at a Mothers' 
Meeting. I never went to one. 

Mrs. Growler. Oh, don't ask me ! My husband says the 
meeting is to give the old maids a chance to tell mothers how 
to bring up their children. 

Mrs. L. Ha ! ha ! I wish I dared to repeat that to Ara- 
minta Sharp. She's sure to do a lot of talking. {Enter Mrs. 
Browne.) How do you do, Mrs. Browne? 

Mrs. Browne. How do you do ? Which one of us is sure 
to do a lot of talking? 

Mrs. L. Mrs. Growler says her husband said 

Mrs. G. Ssssh ! {Enter Miss Sharp. A bag hangs on 
her arm.') How do you do, Araminta? 

Mrs. L. Good-afternoon, Miss Sharp. I suppose you've 
come full of ideas. You always bring so many new thoughts 
to all our meetings. 

Miss Sharp. It is so good of you to say so, Mrs. Lowell. 
I do try to put my experience at the service of my fellow 
beings. 

Miss Keene {entering while she speaks). But there won't 
be any fellow beings here, Araminta; we are all women. 

Miss S. Ha, ha, ha ! You are always our jester, Miss 
Keene. 



4 A mothers' meeting 

Mrs. B. Your experience will be so valuable to us mothers, 
Miss Sharp. 

Miss S. Hem ! Well, perhaps an outsider can see things 
in a more philosophical light, Mrs. Browne. We are not so 
likely to be prejudiced. 

Miss K. Children do break things up so that they don't 
leave a theory whole. 

Mrs. B. Humph ! Good thing it is, too. Too much 
theory is as bad for a child as too much baking-powder is for 
bread. 

Enter Mrs. Hoyt. Mrs. L. goes to Jtieet her. 

Mrs. L. My dear Mrs. Hoyt, I am so glad you could come. 
You know just what a Mothers' Meeting ought to be. 

Mrs. Hoyt. Thank you. I have had the privilege of at- 
tending a Mothers' Meeting in Boston, and of course in Boston 
maternity is looked at only on its highest ethical plane. They 
have such high ideals in Boston. 

Miss S. At least they think they know everything. 

Mrs. C. My husband says they think they're so good they 
don't even bother heaven to make their marriages. 

Mrs. Hoyt. I don't wish to be censorious, but I must say 
that to me such a remark seems a little irreverent. 

Mrs. C. Oh, my husband doesn't mean any harm. That's 
just his joke. 

Mrs. Hoyt. But when it comes to making heaven the sub- 
ject of a jest 

Miss S. I'm sure Boston isn't heaven. The last time I 
was there I had my pocket picked and got an awful cold. 

Miss K. What did you have in your pocket to keep out 
the cold ? 

Miss S. Nothing I Nothing whatever ! 

Enter Mrs. Smithe a?id Miss Gray. Mrs. L. and others 
greet theni. 

Mrs. Smithe. Miss Gray thought she ought not to come, 
because she's not a mother ; but I told her 

Miss Gray. Oh, Mrs. Smithe, I said because I'd never 
married. 

Mrs. B. Well, if you never married, of course you wouldn't 
be a 

Mrs. Hoyt. Mrs. Browne, you shock me ! 



A MOTHERS MEETING 5 

Mrs. C. My husband says that if you want to know how to 
bring up children you ought always to ask the people that never 
had any. 

Mrs. S. They are generally willing enough to tell. 

Enter Mrs. Henderson a}id Miss White. Greetings are 
exchanged. The ladies talk together. Mrs. B., Miss K., 
and Miss S. stand together in fronts r. Mrs. H. and 
Mrs. Hoyt seat themselves in front y l. 

Mrs. B. What a good time Mrs. Hoyt will have telling us 
all about the way they have Mothers' Meetings in Boston. I 
can't endure that pompous way of hers. 

Miss S. She'd better tell how she brought up that boy of 
hers, so that everybody'U know just what not to do. He's a 
disgrace to the town. 

Mrs. B. What's he been doing now? 

Miss S. They say he's carrying on awfully at Harvard. 
My cousin, who knows one of the mothers of a boy in his 
class 

Miss K. How many mothers do Harvard boys generally 
have? 

Mrs. B. There, there, don't make jokes. I want to know 
what Miss Sharp heard. 

Miss S. She says there's a chorus girl 

Miss K. A chorus girl ! 

Miss S. Yes ; Miss Flossie Montmorenci. 

Mrs. B. Of course that isn't her real name. 

Miss S. Of course not. Flossie Montmorenci is only the 
name she goes by on the stage. 

Mrs. B. But what about her ? 

Miss S. Why, they say he's just crazy about her, and 

Miss K. Ssssh ! Not so loud. His mother' 11 hear you. 

{They whisper together. Mrs. Hoyt, tvho has seen them 
look toivard her, seems uneasy. She turns to Mrs. H., 
and indicates the group by a slight ^notion of her hand.) 

Mrs. Hoyt. Do see those women with their heads together. 
I'll warrant they're talking scandal. 

Mrs. Henderson. Oh, I guess not. If they are, it won't 
hurt us if we don't hear it, 

Mrs. L. Ladies, I think we are all here. Perhaps we'd 



6 A MOTHERS* MEETING 

better begin. AVon't you be seated, please? {They take seats, 
except Mrs. L. Miss S., and Miss K., r. f., Mrs. B. 7iext. 
Mrs. H. is l. f., with Mrs. Hoyt next to her. The others 
are in any convenieiit order.') 1 suppose we ought to have 
some sort of a regular way of beginning. 

Mrs. B. The first thing is to choose a lady to be chairman. 

Miss White. I second the motion. 

Miss S. There isn't any motion. 

Mrs. B. It's the same thing. I could have made a mo- 
tion, couldn't I, if I'd thought of it? 

Miss S. How could you make a motion without a chair- 
man ? 

Mrs. S. If you didn't, you couldn't ever have a chairman. 

Miss S. Well, I don't see how a motion is any good if 
there's nobody to put it, and nobody has a right to put it but 
the chairman. 

Mrs. Hoyt. It's parliamentary practice that settles it. 

Miss G. I'm sure the secretary has a right to put a motion. 
I've done it often at the Sewing Circle. 

Miss S. But the secretary is always elected after the chair- 
man. 

Mrs, L. I wish I knew the way the men do it. 

Miss S. I don't know why the men should always be held 
up as a pattern to us. I should hope we had brains enough to 
make our own rules. 

Mrs. H. The rule you want to make, Araminta, seems to 
be that we shall never elect a chairman, because we haven't a 
chairman before we elect him. 

Mrs. L. Will somebody tell me what to do? 

Mrs. B. You should put the motion. 

Mrs. L. I don't know as I've any right to put it; but this 
is my house, so I'm sure the ladies will excuse me. I don't 
know exactly what the motion is, but those in favor will say, 
Ay. 'Tis a vote. 

Mrs. S. It seems as if a Mothers' Meeting ought to be dif- 
ferent from a regular business meeting. 

Mrs. C. My husband says no woman's business meeting 
ever was regular. 

Miss S. That's just sheer impertinence. 

Mrs. C. Oh, it's just his joke. 

Mrs. L. Ladies, will you please come to order? Mrs. 
Hoyt has been to a Mothers' Meeting in Boston, so of course 
she knows all about it. 



MEETING 7 

Mrs. Hoyt {rising quickly). Why, ladies, since you wish 
me to take the chair 

Miss S. {aside). Who wished her to? 

Mrs. L. Of course. That's just the thing. Miss White 
will you help me, please, with this table ? ' 

(Mrs. L. and Miss W. brifig forward the table from the 
back a?id place a chair behind it. Mrs. C. takes the place 
left vacant by Mrs. Hoyt, Mrs. L. the chair which Mrs. 
C. leaves. Mrs. Hoyt seats herself behind the table.) 

Mrs. Hoyt. I suppose I ought to have a gavel, to rap to 
order with : but anything will do. 

(Mrs. L. rises and looks about a little ; then she goes to 
work-basket, gets darning-ball, atid gives it to Mrs. 
Hoyt.) 

Mrs. L. This is almost the same shape. 

Mrs. C. Won't my husband laugh when I tell him we had 
a darning-ball for a gavel ? 

Miss S. You ought to be ashamed to tell him so he can 
make fun of us. 

Mrs. C. Oh, he doesn't mean any harm. It's just his 
joke. 

Mrs. Hoyt {rapping). Ladies, will you please come to 
order? {She rises impressively.) We have come together to 
consider one of the most serious problems which can engage 

--can engage Hem! one of the most serious problems 

which can engage 

Mrs. B. {aside). She's made up a speech and forgotten it. 

Mrs. Hoyt. As I was saying, ladies, we have come to- 
gether to consider one of the most serious problems which can 

engage Hem ! If you will excuse me a moment, I will 

consult a few notes that I made on my return from Boston. I 
think I left them in my coat-pocket. 

{She goes out. The others exchange glances and smiles.) 

Mrs. B. That's why she got up this meeting, — so as to 
give us her rehash of Boston ideas. 

Miss K. Boston baked beans warmed over. 

Mrs. H. I don't think she'll have any beans. 

Miss W. Oh, I'm sure she won't. Why should she have 
beans in her coat-pocket? 



8 A mothers' meeting 

Miss S. Can't you see a joke? Mrs. Hoyt just wanted a 
chance to air somebody's ideas that she heard in Boston. 

Mrs. S. {going to the table aiid taki7ig the place left by Mrs. 
Hoyt). Perhaps I'd better be chairman while Mrs. Hoyt is 
gone, or there won't be any meeting legally when she comes 
back. 

Mrs. L. But if you preside, won't it be a meeting of the 
Sewing Circle? That's what you are president of. 

Miss G. Why shouldn't we have a meeting of the Sewing 
Circle? We've got to decide whether we shall send a box of 
clothes to the Home Missionary Society this fall. 

Mrs. B. Oh, I'm so tired of sending clothes to the mis- 
sionaries. Why can't they dress like the people they're with? 
It would give them a great deal more influence. 

Miss S. And a piece of string costs so little. 

Mrs. H. I don't see what a piece of string has to do with 
their dressing like the natives, but I don't think it's kind to 
talk about the poor things as if they were just bundles. 

Mrs. L. But don't you think we'd better put the money 
into painting the vestry ? 

Miss W. I second the motion. 

Mrs. H. There isn't any motion \ and think of the poor 
missionaries that don't have clothes even for their little 
children. 

Miss K. But in that case they can see so much more of 
them. 

Mrs. H. See more of them ? How would that make any 
difference ? 

Miss G. That's one of Miss Keene's jokes. I must say I 
don't think it's a very delicate one. 

Mrs. B. Oh, I see ! See more of their children because 
they haven't any clothes ! How awfully funny ! 

Miss W. How awfully witty you are. Miss Keene. 

Mrs. S. {rapping^. Ladies, ladies ! Please come to order. 
{Reenter Mrs. ^oyt with 77ianuscript.) This is serious 
business. 

Mrs. B. Yes, this is the most serious subject that can 
engage — can engage 

{The others cry "Sssh/*' and furtively iiidicate Mrs. 
Hoyt. Mrs. B. turns afid sees Mrs. Hoyt. Mrs. S. 
has not yet seeji the chairwo7nan.') 

Mrs. S. I'm sure, ladies, that I see no subject for levity. 



A MOTHERS MEETING 9 

Mrs. Hoyt {advancing 7vith great dignity). Perhaps I am 
the point of the jest. May I ask what is the subject under 
discussion ? 

Mrs. S. We were having a meeting of the Sewing Circle 
while we waited for you. 

Mrs. Hoyt. Oh, very well. I won't intrude ; although as 
a member of the Sewing Circle I think I might have been 
notified. 

Mrs. H. But there weren't any notices. 

Mrs. Hoyt. Then there shouldn't have been any meeting. 
(^She moves slowly and with great dignity toward the door.) 
Good-day, ladies. I should be very sorry to intrude. 

Mrs. L. (Jmrrying after her and brifiging her back). Oh, 
Mrs. Hoyt; don't go. 

Mrs. S. Of course I yield the chair to you now you've 
come back. 

Mrs. B. But don't you think that now we are on the sub- 
ject of tlie missionary-box we'd better come to some decision ? 

Miss W. I second the motion. 

Miss S. Oh, by all means; and then we can decide about 
the tree next Christmas and the Fourth of July celebration and 
the Sunday-school picnic next August. 

Mrs, S. (retiritig to her origi?ial seat). I don't see any 
occasion for sarcasm, Miss Sharp. 

(Mrs. Hoyt stands behind the table and unfolds her manu- 
script. The ladies settle themselves to listen^ 

Mrs. Hoyt (reads). We have come together to consider 
the work of the most intricate and subtle poet that ever en- 
gaged (She stops in cofifusion, and examines her paper.) 

Ladies, I do not know how to apologize ! I have made a most 
unfortunate mistake, and brought the wrong paper. 

Mrs. H. Isn't that something you could read just as well? 
I'm sure we should love to hear anything you had written. 

Mrs. Hoyt. Why, this is an essay on the ethical trend of 
Robert Browning. 

Mrs. H. Oh, well, read that. What difference does it 
make ? 

Mrs. Hoyt. Why, I don't know, I'm sure. I wrote this 
for the Browning Club, and it wouldn't do to read it twice. 

Mrs. B. (^gri?nly). You might read the other paper at the 
Browning Club. I suppose Robert Browning had a mother. 



10 A MOTHERS* MEETING 

Mrs. Hoyt. Why, I suppose so; but I don't see ex- 
actly 

Miss S. Nonsense ! This is the Mothers' Meeting, and we 
can't have a paper on Robert Browning. He certainly wasn't 
a mother, if he did have one. 

Mrs. Hoyt. Well, if you think so, I'll save this to read at 
the Browning Club : but I'm awfully sorry to have you lose the 
other. 1 will only say that we have come together to consider 
the way in which a mother should fulfil her sacred duty in the 
matter of rearing her children. There was a lot more in the 
paper, but I can't seem to remember it. \\\ Boston they had a 
paper and then discussed it. We can have the discussion all 
the same if we don't have the paper. 

Miss S. I should be sorry to put myself forward, but I hap- 
pen to have with me a short paper on this very subject : and 
perhaps the ladies will allow me to read it in place of the elo- 
quent essay we have lost. ( The ladies exchange smiles while 
she takes out of the bag on her ar?n a manuscript. Mrs. Hoyt 
sits. Miss S. goes to stand beside the table. She begins to 
read with a manner of exaggerated seriousness.') "Doctor," 
said a young mother, ** how soon shall I begin the education of 
my son?" "Madame," responded the physician, " how old 
is your child?" "Three days," she responded. "Then, 
madame," he replied impressively, "if you have not already 
begun his education, you have lost beyond recovery — three 
days." 

Miss G. Excuse me for interrupting ; but did you say three 
days? 

Miss S. Three days. 

Mrs. L. I'm sure I don't know what I could have taught 
Charlie when he was three days old. He's seven years old 
now, and I only try to be good to him. 

Mrs. B. Miss Sharp, did you ever see a baby three days 
old? 

Miss S. I — I don't remember. 

Mrs. B. Humph ! If you had, you'd know that that doc- 
tor was an idiot ! 

Mrs. H. Oh, I dare say he meant well. 

Mrs. S. I have always felt that kindness is the secret of 
bringing up children. 

Miss K. Don't you think that it used to be the fashion for 
parents to bring children up, and now it's the style for children 
to bring parents down ? 



A mothers' meeting II 

Miss W. Oh, how awfully funny ! 
. Mrs. B. To me that sounds just plain silly. 

Mrs. C. My husband says the way to bring children up is 
to stop talking about it and attend to business. 

Mrs. L. I think children should be indulged a little. Of 
course they have their little ways, but we have too. 

Miss W. Of course we have. 

Miss S. May I go on with the reading? {Reads.) The 
important thing is to begin at once, before the warring in- 
fluences of environment have stamped upon the snow-white 
infant soul the characters of worldliness and of mischief. 

{She drops a sheet ; ivhile she recovers it the ladies speak.) 

Mrs. H. Well, I must say I wouldn't give much for a child 
that hadn't any mischief in it. 

Miss W. Nor I either. 

Mrs. B. Well, when you think what it costs to get the mis- 
chief out of them 

Miss W. So it does ! 

Mrs. Hoyt. There is where firmness of character comes in. 
It is necessary above everything to be firm with a child. 

Miss G. (aside). She never held her own five minutes 
against her own boy. 

Mrs. Hoyt. Children very soon learn that there is a firm 
hand over them, and that is the main thing. 

Mrs. L. Well, I don't know. I've jusf tried to make 
Charlie love me so he'd want to do what I tell him. 

Mrs. C. They never mind unless they're afraid of being 
punished. 

Mrs. L. Charlie always minds. {Enter Jane, who makes 
signs to Mrs. L. ) Do you want me, Jane? 

Jane. Oh, Mrs. Lowell, excuse me, but Charlie's at the 
jam again, and he won't stop eating it. 

Mrs. L. Tell him he mustn't. 

Jane. I did, but he won't stop. He'll make himself sick, 
the way he did last week. 

Mrs. L. Tell him he'll make mother unhappy. 

Jane. I did, and he just grinned. 

Mrs. L. Poor dear! I'll speak to him. Excuse me, 
ladies. {^Rxit Jane, followed by Mrs. L. 

Miss S. ** Charlie always minds." 



12 A MOTHERS MEETING 

Mrs. Hoyt. You see the lamentable results of a lack of 
firmness. 

Mrs. H. But if you're too hard on them, they get to be 
sly. 

Mrs. Hoyt. Henry never deceives 7ne. 

Miss K. {aside, to Mrs. B.). Do you suppose he's told her 
about Flossie Montmorenci ? 

Mrs. S. Shall we hear the rest of Miss Sharp's paper ? 

Miss S. (j-eads). The ideal training of children depends 
largely upon a proper respect for the integrity of their individu- 
ality. The greatest injury that can be done to the growing 
mind is to interfere with its innate subjectivity. 

Mrs. B. Excuse me; but would you mind readmg that last 
sentence again ? 

Miss S. The greatest injury that can be done to a growing 
mind is to interfere with its innate subjectivity. 

Mrs. B. Humph ! I hope you know what that means. 

Mrs. VV. Perhaps it's explained later. 

Mrs. C. My husband says we shouldn't think a club paper 
was any good if we could understand it. 

Miss S. (^angrily). It seems to me, ladies, that we hear 
about as much of Mrs. Growler's husband's opinions at our 
meetings as we should if he were here ; and 1 move that if he 
has anything more to say about us and our doings, he be in- 
vited to come and say it ! 

Miss W. I second the Oh, no; I don't, I don't ! It 

would be awful to have a man hear what we say ! 

Mrs. C. {laughing heartily). Oh, my husband will just 
about die when I tell him this ! He'll never get over it ! 

Miss S. It is shameful that tales should be told 

Mrs. H. There, there. Miss Sharp; don't get excited. 
Who cares if the men do talk ? They must have something to 
keep them pleasant. 

Mrs. B. I dare say all our husbands laugh about us. I 
should if I was a man. 

Miss S. Mine doesn't ! — I mean I'm glad I haven't got one 
if that's the way they act ! 

Mrs. Hoyt {rappi7jg). Come to order, please, ladies. 
Miss Sharp, will you go on with your most interesting paper? 

Miss S. (reads). The mind of a child is protoplasm, and 
must be allowed to go forward rhythmically in its own beauti- 
ful development from embryonic negation to perfected indi- 
viduality. 



A MOTHERS MEETING I3 

(A murmur of admiration from the ladies y except Mrs. B., 
who sniffs contemptuously.^ 

Mrs. B. I don't know what rhythmic protoplasm is, but 
I'm sure my Edward never had anything of the kind when he 
was a baby. I'd have taken him to a doctor if he had. 

(^A sensation. Miss S. opens her mouth to reply ^ but is ift- 
terrupted by the reentrance of Mrs. L. with a telegram in 
her hand.) 

Mrs. L. Here's a telegram for you, Mrs. Hoyt. The boy 
brought it over, and I thought it might be important. 

Mrs. Hoyt (taki?ig the telegram while they all watch eagerly ^ 
and opening it nervously). Thank you. I dare say Henry is 
coming home. (^She reads, gives a little scream, and starts up 
frantically.) Married ! Oh, it can't be ! Oh, my poor de- 
ceived boy ! 

Several Ladies. Married ! Henry married ? 

Miss K. Not to the chorus girl ? 

Mrs. Hoyt. What ! Oh, how did you know? 

{She falls in her chair and fai^its. The telegram drops 
upon the table. All rise. Several ladies rush to help 
her. Miss S. takes the telegram, and she and Miss K. 
come down front, where Miss S. reads it aloud.) 

Miss S. "I have married Miss Flossie Montmorenci of the 
Gaiety Theatre. She is a peach." My stars ! The wicked- 
ness of men ! 

Miss G. (who has joined them). What, to get married ? 

Miss K. Well, I must say he has emerged from embryonic 
negation into perfected individuality with a vengeance ! 

Mrs. H. (zuho has remained standing ?iear her seat, l. f.) 
Ladies, do you think this is kind ? I might almost ask if you 
think it is honorable. 

(She takes the telegram from Miss S. a7id restores it to the 
table fust as Mrs. Hoyt recovers.) 

Mrs. Hoyt. Ladies, I hope you will excuse me. A tele- 
gram is always so sudden, you know. They always frighten 
me. I will go home. I don't feel very well. 



14 A MOTHERS MEETING 

{She fakes the tclegraiUy and is helped out by Mrs. L. and 
Miss W. The other ladies look at each other and slowly 
follow.) 

Mrs. C. My husband will say that if it wasn't so tragic, it 
would be awfully funny to see what firmness comes to. 

Mrs. H. We mothers couldn't say that, -Mrs. Growler. 

Miss S. Well, anyway,' it's a queer end for a Mothers* 
Meeting. 

{As they move toward the door the curtain falls.) 



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Scene, a single interior; costumes, modern. Plays a 
full evening. 

THE WEAKER SEX Comedy in Three Acts. Eight males, eight 
females. Costumes, modern ; scenery, t\\ o 
interiors. Plays a full evening. 

A WIFE WITHOUT A SMILE ""T^l '"7"T T\ "" " 

males, tour females. Costumes, 
modern ; .«;cene, a single interior. Plays a full evening. 



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THF AWAl^FNINft ^^*y ^^ ^^"'* ■^^^^- ^y ^- ^' chambers. 

1 ULi A TT HliLlilliU i^'our males, six females. Scenery, not diffi- 
cult, chielly interiors ; costumes, modern. Plays a full evening. 
Price, 50 Cents. 

THE FRUITS OF ENLIOHTENMENT glT^^rJ'rT.tZ- 

one males, eleven females. Scenery, characteristic interiors; cos- 
tumes, modern. Plays a full eveJiiiig. Recommended for reading 
clubs. Price, 35 Cents. 

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR rfffKlHAL^^'^fJ 

males, three females. Costumes, modem ; scenery, one interior. 
Acting rights reserved. Time, a full evening. Price, 60 Cents. 

AV inFAI HINRAND comedy in Four Acts. By OscAK Wilde. 
Ai^ IVL,AL( llUJUilL^ir Nine males, six females. Costumes, mod- 
ern ; scenery, three interiors. Plays a full evening. Acting rights 
reserved. Sold for reading. Price, 50 Cents. 

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Is° i" 'Etcli 

Wilde. Five males, four females. Costumes, modern ; scenes, two 
interiors and an exterior. Plays a full evening. Acting rights re- 
served. Price, 50 Cents. 

LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN ^?Z^.M?Z'^^S...''lSl'i?. 

males. Costumes, modern ; scenery, three interiors. Plays a full 
evening. Acting rights reserved. Price, 50 Cents. 

NATHAN HAT F Plf^y in ^o^"' Acts. By Clyde fitch. Fifteen 
llillllill^ Hl\L4Lt males, four females. Costumes of the eighteenth 
century in America. Scenery, four interiors and two exteriors. Act- 
ing rights reserved. Plays a full evening. Price, 50 Cents. 

THF HTHFR FFITftW Comedy in Three Acts. ByM. B. Horne. 
lIlLr VillLfli lL<L/LrVTT gjx males, four females. Scenery, two 
interiors; costumes, modern. Professional stage rights reserved. 
Plays a full evening. Price, 50 Cents. 

THE TYRANNY OF TEARS 8n?,^S.^rrrfeJhV'eg: 

males. Scenery, an interior and an exterior; costumes, modern. 
Acting rights reserved. Plays a full evening. Price, 50 Cents. 

A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE ?S^ii;^"L^^iJll 

seven females. Costumes, modern ; scenery, three interiors and an 
exterior. Plays a full evening. Stage rights reserved. Ottered for 
rcatling only. Price, 50 Cents. 



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